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Attorney General Beau Biden asked legislators Monday for more money to give higher pay to 110 deputy attorneys general, and to hire a new prosecutor and an investigator for the department's child predator unit.

The promotional pay increases for 110 deputies, whose salaries have been frozen, would cost taxpayers $128,500 in the Justice Department's budget, according to a letter Biden addressed Monday to the co-chairs of the General Assembly's Joint Finance committee.